With the onslaught of more and more snow, we saw a little more cruising activity (whether the scent of a hot doe gets slightly covered with a fresh snow or the bucks wanted to cut fresh tracks) on the cameras. Still mostly young bucks, but that brings hopes for the next couple years if we can keep the deer close this winter. As soon as I could get a camera out there after the rifle season, I wanted to see if Twigs was still alive. Sure enough, the day after I hung the camera, I got some pictures of him, along with a beautiful two year old buck.
I have been hunting Twigs fairly hard, but we just have not been able to cross paths yet. The first few sits, he seemed to be moving only at night, but in the last few days, I've caught him a couple times during daylight. I think as his attention is drawn away from breeding and chasing and more into a time of rest and recuperation, he will begin to move in a more confined uniform pattern. Hopefully I can figure out where that is and make my move. I guess I could hang a camera in a second location in hopes of finding out more information on his pattern.
Muzzleloader season is now in and I am trying to be very cautious about how much hunting/driving I do during this time as to not give anyone any hints where there might be a big deer.
Pencil hasn't shown his face since the scrape video, with the exception of one more appearance out at a neighbor's food plot. I shouldn't be surprised by his traveling out there. He's fully mature, and it's the best food source around.
We are on the front edge of a pretty large storm thats supposed to bring between 6 and 10 inches of snow. I'm hoping for maybe 2 or 3. We don't need more snow, we just need some to cover up the old sign.
On a new endeavor, dad and I have been checking traps in my inaugural trapping season. We both were drawn for timber wolf trapping tags and have two bait sites set up in hopes to capitalize on the roaming canus lupus. So far no activity. But this storm should cover all our tracks and leave the sites looking like they should.
